Day Two with Susan: In the Jungle
Jungle Jim’s: 4 hours. $100. One bag of groceries.
But, I got a lot of chocolate (including a bar of Scharffen Berger bittersweet), organic madascar bourbon vanilla, and other good stuff.
Dinner was the Macaroni Grill. I got Shrimp Diavolo, although without the extra spicy tomato sauce, since I seem to becoming more and more of a wimp as I get older (bag humbug). Very delicious, and took leftovers home for lunch.
Bookshopping was Border’s where I picked up the last paperback Spenser book I was missing (Widow’s Walk, started it last night) and a new book of Japanese Folktales. For the most part their selection of folk and fairy tales was pretty much the same as I’ve seen elsewhere, but it never hurts to check. I almost bought a book of Norse Tales and Myths, but then I remembered that I spent $100 at Jungle Jim’s, and so set it aside (for now). We’ll be going to Joseph-Beth, so I’ll see what they have there.
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July 12th, 2004 at 11:01 pm
When I was a kid, the library had a book of Norse Myths that I read and re-read. I currently have a book called Japanese Fairy Tales that I haven’t gotten around to reading yet.
July 14th, 2004 at 9:15 am
I have one book on Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Pantheon) that I love. The new book of Japanese Folk tales is published by Dover. I have another collection “Japanese Tales” (also published by Pantheon) by Royall Tyler, that is absolutely fantastic, and I’d recommend to anyone. It’s not really a kid’s collection, at least in the modern sense of the word, as it hasn’t been cleaned up and Disney-fied. Excellent!
The new Dover collection is good so far, but nowhere near as good as Royall Tyler’s “Japanese Tales”. Instead of telling the tale as you’d expect a storyteller to do, there are occasional bits of commentary that, although interesting, are mildly distracting.
Actually, I’ve found that any folk tale collection published by Pantheon is going to very good. unfortunately for me, I think I’ve bought and read all their collections, leaving me few pleasant surprises, unless someone else starts publishing more folktales.